BricsCAD® BIM

Familiar and compatible CAD

BricsCAD is built entirely on the industry standard DWG format, with full command, script, macro, and menu compatibility. BricsCAD feels like home!

A flexible platform for 2D, 3D designs, and BIM

BricsCAD BIM is built on the familiar BricsCAD system, so you can leverage the 2D drafting tools as you ease into 3D workflows at your own pace. Enjoy the flexibility to create simple 3D designs, import or produce BIM for collaborations, or model with accuracy for construction and fabrication.

AI-driven

In BricsCAD BIM, design decisions come first, and machine learning algorithms automate the laborious tasks of manipulating BIM data, documentation, and levels of detail.

2D & 3D

You can find a flexible, direct building-modeling tool and a professional CAD product in the same DWG platform. Design geometry can directly be converted to BIM elements.

CAD software

A safe path to BIM for CAD users without the disruption of learning a traditional BIM system. Spending less on software and training while avoiding performance dips during transition lowers the barriers to entry.

For BIM

BricsCAD BIM leverages the power of solid CAD modeling that supports flexible design, BIM, and the accuracy needed by engineers and manufacturers, opening the possibility of linking BIM with fabrication workflows in the BricsCAD Ultimate package.

The BricsCAD^® BIM workflow

Discover how BricsCAD BIM enables a streamlined workflow for design, construction, and fabrication in a single DWG environment.

Modeling freedom

Experience the freedom to model with a 3D workflow unrestricted by pre-defined parts or library components. Use intuitive push-pull direct modeling to sculpt your mass-model concept. Your model remains light and responsive because it’s not overloaded or over-constrained.

Visualization

Visualize your projects at every phase of the workflow with BricsCAD BIM. With a single click, you can start real-time rendering using Enscape, Twinmotion or Lumion and walk through your fully rendered model project.

Classify,  replicate, automate

Leverage the power of AI tools to automatically convert your concept study models to fully classified BIM models (LOD 200). Then, increase the LOD of your BIM continuously using the power of BricsCAD BIM’s AI-powered workflows.

Generate spectacular documentation

Create clear and accurate construction documentation in record time using the automatic generation of sections, elevations, drawing views, and sheet layouts. You can always customize them using the world’s best drafting and annotation tools. Change your BIM and all associated drawing views will be regenerated automatically to stay in total synch with the model.

Detailing and quantification

Increase your model’s LOD by adding information and duplicating it at any or all matching instances across your BIM automatically. With high accuracy and consistent Level of Detail across the entire BIM, exact quantity take-offs and bills of materials can be extracted, displayed, and exported.

Deliver custom designs for fabrication and manufacturing

The accuracy of BricsCAD BIM offers new horizons for engineers and manufacturers of building products. Custom components can be designed and shared as assemblies for use within the BIM or on the shop floor for fabrication.

Manufacturers of building components can create production-ready assemblies in BricsCAD^® Mechanical, then share their designs as libraries of components for use with BricsCAD BIM.

Scan

Scan existing conditions to verify the accuracy of old survey drawings and start your renovation projects from an accurate, as-build model. Point clouds can help you check progress and quality during construction and make a permanent record of the completed building for future renovations.

Open BIM & interoperability

BricsCAD BIM supports global, open standards to ensure interoperability and enable smooth collaboration with everyone on the extended design or build team.

Quick floor plans

BIMQUICKDRAW takes sketching into the 3D realm. You can create and modify 3D room layouts as easily as sketching out a 2D floor plan. Creating and editing rectangular and L-shaped rooms and buildings has never been so fast.

Create a BIM from a solid massing model

BIMQUICKBUILDING supports iterative and generative design workflows, quickly transforming a solid massing model into a conceptual BIM model with slabs, walls, and spaces -- helping the designer to explore many design options in an early design phase.

Create Spaces and Zones

You have unlimited freedom to create Spaces and Zones, using a free-form direct modeling approach. Spaces can be simple or complex 3D volumes, or 2D abstractions. These methods deliver the freedom to specify building areas with full freedom.

Bi-directional link with Grasshopper

BricsCAD BIM modeler and McNeel’s Rhinoceros^®/Grasshopper have a live, two-way link to bridge the gap between early-stage generative design and BIM by translating geometric entities into BIM elements.

Top View Mode

BricsCAD BIM gives you the ultimate flexibility of modeling your designs with direct modeling or the Top View Mode, which gives you the familiar experience of modeling in a plan view. Creating simple wall layouts with doors and windows has just become a lot more efficient in BricsCAD BIM.

Explore our third-party applications

The Bricsys Collective™ brings our premier third-party application developers together to offer the solutions for structural engineering and analysis, building mechanical systems, photoreal rendering, and algorithmic design.